yolk, by Lucy Murrey

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

In her debut poetry chapbook, Lucy inspects identity in the ways she first learned it: collecting rocks, holding up the mirror, and frying okra; sitting in shadows, lying awake, and rising like hot air. In a coming-of-age collection spanning a developmental decade, the poet beckons and imposes, asks and answers, and invites you, too, to wonder.

“Between the echo of a mother's compassion and introspection, we find space for radical tenderness and the invitation to reconcile the self.”

—de'Angelo Dia, theopoet and author of nightshade (Bottlecap Press, 2024)

“yolk...speaks from borderlands just short of sleep, just shy of wakefulness...rooted in an abiding sense of place... There are “no miracles” in Murrey’s world, but there are small saving graces, not least of which are these poems themselves.”

—Tom Laichas, poet and author of Three Hundred Streets of Venice (FutureCycle Press, 2023)

Lucy is a wanderer and wonderer. Raised in the Southeast, educated in the Northeast, and now growing out West, she is most proud of how far she has come. Lucy earned a B.A. in Communication Studies from Northeastern University and works as a writer and creative director in Los Angeles and New York City. View her visions at www.pro0fconcept.com.